Yves Saint Laurent As the first designer to have drawn his inspiration from the street and the first living couturier to have his work exhibited in a museum, it is fitting that Yves Saint Laurent should have been chosen to open a new chapter in French coinage. The obverse bears his signature and an image of his first show in 1962, a show that was totally to change the course of fashion history. Reverse His talisman heart is the principal design feature of the reverse, a collage taken from his